I heart Victor Davis Hanson

I once heard Brit Hume and Tony Snow (FOX news dudes) referred to as "intellectually drop-dead gorgeous" and I totally got that. I'm kind-of the same way... really hot-looking guys may be okay to look at, but to really light my fire, be brilliant in some other way... particularly intellectually. My Handsome Prince himself may appear ordinary to the eye, but he is quite simply the most intellectually and spiritually drop-dead-gorgeous person in the whole wide world. Brains and heart... much better than looks.

That's why I think Victor Davis Hanson, affectionally known to many as simply "VDH", is so awesome. His column today is spectacular. Particularly insightful:

In the age of utopianism we demand impossible standards of perfection. Then when they cannot be met, we conclude that we are not good at all, but the equivalent of a Pol Pot, Hitler, or Saddam himself -- an elected American president who is a worse terrorist than Osama bin Laden.

And in a war with enemies like few other in our recent history, the contrast between rhetoric and reality is only accentuated: panties over the head of an Iraqi inmate, no head at all on an American prisoner; Korans given to the enemy terrorists in jail, Bibles outlawed for visitors to our friends the Saudis; our elected president becomes a member of the "Bush crime family" as we worry about proper barristers for Saddam Hussein's genuinely criminal family. As we fear that we have fallen short of the postmodern therapeutic age, Islamic fascists brag they are avatars of the Dark Ages.

Go ye, therefore, and read it all.